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| another toy for those with money to burn I wonder if they spent as much time and money on the products' sound quality as they did making that commercial and ads. | |
| Products you added to your system in 2021 that made most impact to your music enjoyment The Karousel main bearing for my Linn. The purchase of an Esoteric K-03XD SACD/CD Player. But for me, the most enjoyable audio purchases this year will be to install a system in our very non audiophile friends new home by a lake. It will be ... | |
| Thoughts on Spectral Audio gear Used to sell it, and have owned it since the mid eighties. Sonic characteristics changed when Keith O Johnson took over design from Demian Martin and so did the complexity of the build and am not as familiar with the latest stuff. Their is a loo... | |
| You own a store, you sell 2 brands, which? Well not so much of a thought experiment. Once Linn/Naim dealers dotted most western cities around the globe. Quite a few still exist. Between the two they sell every component known to the contemporary Audiophile. | |
| Magico A3 price increases 50%+ I have been building and modifying speakers as a hobby (well sort of) since the mid eighties. One thing I have learned is not everything works like you think it might. About a year ago I purchased a pair of the top of the line Mundorf supreme ... | |
| Very new to high end audio - Recomendations You're in the UK ( £1000 ) ? If you are , you must have some good audio dealers near enough to visit. The kind where you can sit down and listen in hopefully an uncluttered fashion, not some room just full of equipment. An audiophile is an ... | |
| CD Quality Versus Streaming Quality You're exactly right. I have listened to some serious streaming components and hear the same thing. Sometimes, in fleeting moments the streamed music can be very good but on a whole it's just so so. Now a setup that uses a hard drive (NBS) can ... | |
| What Integrated Amp do You use Esoteric F-05. Purchased it after realizing that a Rega Elicit R I purchased, while an excellent product simply didn't have the muscle to drive my ATC 19 v2' properly. While on paper the amplifiers have sort of similar power ratings the Esoteri... | |
| What DAC upgrade made you say “DAMN, that sounds SO MUCH better than my last DAC”? I have been listening to a recent purchase of an Esoteric K-03XD for not quite two weeks and am (coming to grips?) with its sound. It doesn’t sound like a SACD/CD player in the sense that I’m familiar with and it doesn’t sound like a turntable. As... | |
| My Last CD player I think CD is better than streaming and SACD at times out performing the best Lp's. I decided on purchasing my last SACD/CD player to replace a Yamaha CD-S2100 that I purchased six or seven months ago. Nothing wrong with the Yamaha, in fact so... | |
| What is the #1 equipment want currently on your HiFi horizon??? Well I have to say it's two wants and one arrived (delivered by the good people at Music Direct) a few days ago was my what I am calling my last SACD/CD player that is replacing a Yamaha CD-S2100 SACD/CD player that I purchased six seven months ea... | |
| Mega dollar systems. 200k on up. What are their professions? Back when I worked for a top specialist dealer in the near north of Chicago near Northwestern Medical center and medical school, my top customers ranged from some of the top execs at financial institutions, managing law partners, CEOs, the kind of... | |
| My thoughts on my new Esoteric k03xd CD player. Have you read What HiFi' review of the Luxman? They were pretty emphatic about it having and I quote; " However, the Luxman falls short in its ability to communicate the passion in music, and that makes it a talented diversion rather than an ess... | |
| VINYL SUCKS! My first thoughts about a thread that starts Vinyl Sucks is ignore it until I clicked on the website and realized that it was that pasty face gen x er, whatever, that for some reason has to give his 2 useless cents on a subject he thinks he knows ... | |
| to buy or not to buy (ultrasonic record cleaner) Well I won’t read thru all of these responses so if I’m repeating something I apologize. A couple weeks ago I broke down and purchased a Degritter and am never looking back. The ease of use, the maintenance (it tells you what it needs), quieter th... |